Weight
It’s seems that once again, the public conversation about health has been degraded to weight and appearance.As usual, celebrity women have become the prime targets of jabbing and sometimes devastating comments. This collective social behavior always trickles into the day-to-day lives and consciousness of so many women, fueling insecurity,…
It’s seems that once again, the public conversation about health has been degraded to weight and appearance.As usual, celebrity women have become the prime targets of jabbing and sometimes devastating comments. This collective social behavior always trickles into the day-to-day lives and consciousness of so many women, fueling insecurity,…
PepsiCo said Friday it was bowing to customer demand and doing away with the controversial sweetener aspartame in its diet line of cola drinks in the US. Starting in August, Diet Pepsi, Caffeine Free Diet Pepsi and Wild Cherry Diet Pepsi will be sweetened with a mixture of sucralose and acesulfame potassium, the company said. The blend replaces aspartame, an artificial sweetener approved by the US Food and Drug Administration but which has been plagued by criticism for years that it poses health risks.
The benefits of yoga are endless. With a little downward dogging, you can lower your stress levels, decrease your risk of heart disease, maintain a healthy weight and so much more. So if you’re getting your butt to yoga class every week, good for you! But if you’re texting between sun salutations, your instructor might say you’re robbing…
There is a scale at my gym that seems to be a smart scale. You input your height and gender, estimate the weight of your clothes… and then you (or maybe it’s just me) step on it gingerly while barefoot, as if the more gently you step on it, the more gentle it will be as it sorts through calculations.
Title: Health Tip: Manage Weight-Loss Goals
Category: Health News
Created: 4/22/2015 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 4/22/2015 12:00:00 AM
I will be honest — it only takes one look on the scale for me to be sent into an anxiety-ridden mess with low self-esteem for weeks.With a 5-foot, 4-inch frame, weighing in at 145 pounds, I often used to feel defeated about my weight. I would constantly obsess over getting back to my high school weight of 130 pounds and anytime I saw the scale…
There’s a thought process that some of us have, and that is that skinny equals happy. It’s like the saying ‘more isn’t better, better is better,’ skinny doesn’t equal happy, happy equals happy. Growing up, I always remember feeling “fat.” I was a normal weight, but that’s not how I felt at the time. Most of my friends were ‘skinnier’ than me…
Police are investigating the death of a woman in the United Kingdom after she took diet pills that she bought online, British authorities said. The West Mercia Police Department in western England issued a warning this week after Eloise Parry, 21, died on April 12, shortly after she took pills she had bought online to lose weight, according to police. “We are undoubtedly concerned over the origin and sale of these pills and are working with partner agencies to establish where they were bought from and how they were advertised,” Chief Inspector Jennifer Mattinson said in a statement.
By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Consumption of chamomile tea was linked with a lower risk of thyroid cancer in a small Greek study. Researchers interviewed some Athens residents about their lifestyle, eating and drinking habits and found that people who reported drinking more chamomile tea over longer periods of time were less likely to develop thyroid malignancies or benign growths than those who didn’t. While the study doesn’t prove tea prevents cancer, it adds to a growing body of evidence pointing to the potential health benefits of a Mediterranean diet including lots of lean fish, fresh vegetables and healthy fats in addition to tea, study co-author Dr. Athena Linos, an environmental health researcher at Prolepsis in Greece, said by email. “The finding was not surprising to me because many aspects of the Mediterranean diet have been shown to be protective towards cancer in general,” Linos said.